Nonprofit group leader starts tricycle taxi service in Kyoto

Nonprofit group leader starts tricycle taxi service in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Noriyuki Morita, leader of a nonprofit organization, who started offering tricycle taxi rides in downtown Kyoto on May 17, the first such service in Japan. ''I've always wanted to send a message to contribute to the protection of the environment from Kyoto, where the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming was adopted and where I was born and grew up,'' the 27-year-old Morita said.

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